Succotash, The Comedy Soundcast Soundcast

Succotash Epi51: Clippin' N' Sippin' With Bill Haywatt

Succotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast, was launched in 2011 with the idea of promoting comedy soundcasts in what was then a marketplace still trying to find its way. By featuring short clips of shows being produced by funny folks both known and unknown, we like to feel that we maybe had a little tiny, eeny weeny, itsy bitsy bit to do with helping to ignite the torch of soundcasts across the globe! (But then we've always had a rather high opinion of ourselves...)

Original show host and executive producer Marc Hershon, along with booth announcer Bill Heywatt, engineer/producer Joe Paulino, associate producer Tyson Saner, musical director Scott Carvey, and booth assistant Kenny Durgis have kept the flame alive o'er these many years. In 2018, Hershon abandoned the host chair and anointed Saner to the position, with nary a notice from the legions of listeners. Typical.

This
episode we return to our roots. Clips, clips and more clips. Also,
a return to Studio P ("The Home of The Hit!"), engineer-producer
Joe Paulino, and another long-awaited installment of
Boozin' With Bill featuring our booth announcer Bill
Haywatt.

Bill's concoctions are usually something he picked up during one of
the many radio gigs he's had over the past 70 years. Often
scrounged from either a hard-drinking co-worker or from one of the
numerous dive bars that could be found in the neighborhoods that
usually spring up around radio stations and recording
studios.

This time around he presents us with the very first alcoholic
mixture he can first remember making while still a lad at the
tender age of 14.During the show he dubbed it "The Beer Float" but given the
beer required for this
one, I call it "The Floating Heinie". Either
way it's a twist on
that soda fountain favorite, the root beer float.

THE
COUNTDOWN

Once again, very little movement in the Top 10 of Stitcher's Comedy
Podcast chart this last week. In fact, this week, other than the
fact two shows switched places in the Top 10, nothing’s gone
on.

I think for the next episode, I may add the bottom 10 (from
#90-100) just to have some new show names in the
mix.

REVIEW

In "This Week In Comedy Podcasts" on Splitsider.com I reviewed
Penn's Sunday School with Penn Jillette and guest
Peter "Herman's Hermits" Noone! It went a little something -
no, exactly - like this:

Ah, Penn
Jillette. Magician, conman, truth-sayer, provocateur and atheist.
It’s the last of those that drives many of the discussions around
Penn’s Sunday School, although in the latest installment, none of
that comes around until after the first hour, during which time
Peter Noone (of Herman’s Hermits fame) is Jillette’s guest. And
Noone turns out to be a treasure trove of fantastic stories from
the early days of the British Invasion and beyond. The child TV
star (from BBC’s Coronation) had turned to music and was playing at
the age of 16 while hanging around the Beatles before they took
off. He tells of John Lennon knocking out five blokes in a working
man’s bar and of meeting and hanging out with Elvis in Hawaii a few
years later. Jillette punctuates Noone’s tales with his trademark
hoarse guffaw. Later in the show, after Noone has left, the host
shares how his own atheist beliefs have been picked up by his young
daughter and how that causes a bit of a problem with a god-fearing
boy in her school, about which Jillette is a little leery about
dealing with. Jillette’s shows tend to run over an hour, and each
extra minute is well worth the listen.

So you can get the complete flavor of it, I clip that show in this
very episode.

DURST

This week our on-call Raging Moderate Will Durst turns his acerbic
funny beam on the Civil Ware brewing in the Republican't party for
our Burst O' Durst.

Our first
clip is from new podcast, Overview, by a friend of
Succotash and a good buddy of mine: Rick Overton! (He
was one of our earliest guests – you can find my interview with him
in Epi 6 AND I also released a bonus Epi 6.5, which was my
interview with Rick in its entirety.) Now he’s got his own show
going. And he’s already had some great guests from the world of
comedy. Recently he spoke with comedy legend Jonathan
Winters – what a score! It struck me that some of what Jonathan
is talking about in our clip, where he’s talking about starting out
as a comic, relates directly across to podcasting in many
ways.

Although this IS a new podcast, the host will be familiar to some
of you Succotashians. It’s Caleb Bacon who, until a couple
of months ago, was the host of The Gentlemen’s Club podcast.
With this new show, Bacon gets pretty heavy in the first show, as
his guest is “Bald Bryan” Bishop, who is a producer and
sidekick on the Adam Carolla Show as well as the co-host of
his own podcast called The Film Vault. Four years ago, at
the age of 30, Bryan was diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer.
He’s still around, so not only has he survived it, but it’s given
him some perspectives on life a 30 year old doesn’t often
have.

Penn Jillette, best know for being one-half of Penn &
Teller, does a number of things as well, including this podcast.
Jillette has become somewhat well know for being an atheist – he
doesn’t believe in god – and he often goes into the topic on his
podcast. But he also has guests come through and the subject of
religion never comes up. Recently he had Peter Noone on the
show, the founding member of Herman’s Hermits.

From the show’s intro I
know that host Nick Dressel is a student at MSU in East
Lansing, Michigan, and the premise for Nobodies is that he
and all of his guest are “nobodies” – they are actors and comedians
and other flavors of performance who have not “arrived” yet but
hope to someday, so Nick sees his show as being the first place you
will have heard his guests, but not the last. In Epi35 of Nobodies,
his guests Spencer Perrenoud and Jason Carlen gather
‘round a rendering of “McConaughey”.

Here’s
one of the only clips from a show we’ve heard from before – it’s
Snitch & Lins from Australia! I like the fact that this
is a sketch more than anything. I think if I have to hear more
people going off on a pop culture riff on their podcasts, I’ll
throw up. So thanks, Stitch & Lins!

When I
heard from Cam of the 3 Pleasant Gentlemen podcast, I was
informed that there are only TWO Gentlemen in the cast -
Cam and Remo. The third Gentleman is a woman, who
goes by the name Savy. I also discovered that I’m not alone
in finding out that a car makes for a suitable substitute
podcasting facility. (While we often have luxurious Studio P, The
Home of The Hit!, at our disposal, some episodes of Succotash come
to you via Studio F, my Fiat.) 3 Pleasant Gentlemen orginates from
the roomy interior of a Chevy Tahoe.

I think I’m going to be
enjoying the Drunken Taoist, a bi-monthly podcast hosted by
Daniele Bolelli. He’s got quite a colorful collection of
stuff next to his name. He’s a writer, a martial artist, and a
college professor. His teaching style’s described as “half standup
comedian and half Zen master.” Bolelli’s guest from the episode we
clipped is New York Times Best Selling author Christopher
Ryan, who co-wrote Sex At Dawn and has his own podcast
called Tangentially Speaking.

Unlike
The Drunken Taoist, our next podcast has precious little on about
the podcast or the people on it, even though they have a half dozen
places on the web where you grab their episodes. I can’t even find
names for the voices you’re hearing in this clip from the Dirty
Kong Podcast.

We
have a clip from another new podcast – only 6 epis in – called
OK Hypothetical and it was submitted by Garin, one of
the two hosts. The other fellow is Connor. I like these
guys. Here’s the text from their email: “Good morning, The attached
clip is actually the full first episode of our show. Run time is 4
minutes 33. Thank you for your consideration. Garin and Connor”.
Straight to the point. No nonsense. Get in, get out, no one gets
hurt. I love that their show’s title is most of what you need to
know about how the show goes.

So
there you go - back to a clips royale with this episode! If you're
a comedy podcaster, remember that you are welcome to submit a 3-5
minute MP3 clip from your show, via email, to clips@SuccotashShow.com.
(While we may well get around to your podcast, there are THOUSANDS
of shows out there on the comedy side of podcasting, so you stand a
better chance of having us feature you if you are proactive and
shoot us a clip yourself!